Creating structure-equipment relationships in batch

To create a structure-equipment relationship between two points, the two point features must share the same x,y geometry values. However, when line, area, and point geometry type features are grouped into a structure-equipment relationship, they do not have to share similar geometry values. There could be more than one child feature, but only one parent feature is allowed in a relationship. If you have selected two or more parent features when creating a structure-equipment relationship, you have to choose which one is the parent feature from the selection, and the remaining parent features become child features in the relationship.

The batch mode of the Relationship Manager tool evaluates all the potential relationships based on the view extent or selection and creates more than one structure-equipment relationship.

1. Start ArcMap.
2. On the main menu, click Customize > Toolbars > Production Editing.
3. On the main menu, click Customize > Toolbars > Nautical.
4. Click the Production Start Editing button on the Production Editing toolbar.

   Note:

   The Manage Features and Create Attributes, Update Attributes, or Metadata Attributes windows automatically appear when you start an edit session using the Production Start Editing tool.

   Tip:

   If the Create Attributes, Update Attributes, or Metadata Attributes window does not appear when you start an edit session, click the Show/Hide Attributes button on the Manage Features window.

5. Click the Relationship Manager button on the Nautical toolbar.

   The Relationship Manager window appears. It is blank by default.

6. Prepare the data you want to use to create structure-equipment relationships.

   If creating relationships by a selection set	Select features for which you want to create structure-equipment relationships.
   If creating relationships by extent	Zoom in to the extent.

7. You can choose to customize your view. Go to Working with the Relationship Manager window for more information.
8. Right-click structure-equipment in the tree view and click an option.

   To batch create relationships by a selection set	Click Batch Create Selected Features.
   To batch create relationships by extent	Click Batch Create Current Extent.

   The batch create process performs a spatial query for all point features that qualify to participate in a structure-equipment relationship. To qualify, features that can potentially share a structure-equipment relationship must be spatially collocated. Any layers containing potential structure-equipment relationships are automatically added to the Table Of Contents window during this step.

   New relationships are created and appear in the Relationship Manager window.

   If the tool can’t determine the feature for a potential relationship, the completion message will notify you that there are ambiguous relationships. If you want to manually create relationships for these, continue to step 9.

   If no features are found that qualify to participate in a structure-equipment relationship, you are notified through a message box.

9. If necessary, click Yes to browse ambiguous features through the Browse Features dialog box and create relationships manually.
10. Follow the steps below to manually create the relationships:
    1. Select features from which to create one relationship (structure-equipment features).
    2. Click the Refresh button in the Relationship Manager window.
    3. In the Relationship Manager window, right-click structure-equipment in the tree view and click Create.

       The new structure-equipment relationship appears in the tree view if you selected only one structure feature.

       Tip:

       The batch create tools don't process lines and polygons, only coincident point features. To create structure-equipment relationships that involve lines or polygons, select the features that will participate in the structure-equipment relationship and use the Create command.